Definition of "nonfiction" []

• Prose works other than fiction: I've read her novels but not her nonfiction. (noun)
• The category of literature consisting of works of this kind. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Using composites characters or scenes in nonfiction is controversial."
• "The top ten bestsellers in nonfiction, also as recorded by Publishers Weekly;"
• "Thus, Rose seems to be suggesting, "story" in nonfiction ought not to be an end in itself, but rather a strategy used to communicate "a larger idea.""